The Saturday night game between Dragons and Cowboys attracted 302,000, while the most recent Monday night game saw the Cowboys versus the Eels achieve 293,000.

The AFL’s most watched game also reached 293,000, when the Magpies hosted the red-hot Hawks. In fourth spot on our table was a surprising fixture, with the Suns versus Kangaroos achieving 292,000.

Both competitions would be pleased in the spread of clubs getting good ratings, each having six fixtures in the top dozen football games. The AFL had 10 clubs appearing in their six highest rating matches, while the NRL had nine clubs appearing in theirs.

The AFL dominates attendances, with 22 of the top 25 most-attended matches, all 22 achieving an attendance in excess of 31,000, with all 18 clubs involved in at least one such match.

The best attended match was Collingwood’s hard-fought contest against Hawthorn (with an attendance of 75,880), which was also the AFL’s best-rating match.

The best-attended NRL match was the Broncos hosting the Tigers in Round 19 (37,260), which finished 16th on our list.

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The pre-season football match between Adelaide United and Liverpool attracted 53,008 to the Adelaide Oval, and was the fourth best attended match for the month.

There were other pre-season games played during July, including one between the Roar and Liverpool which also attracted a large crowd, but I could not find an official attendance figure, so unfortunately I had to leave it off the list.